Monday, October 7, 2013

The 24mm Eye

Breaking my own standards and core ideas of this blog and post these images taken with a slightly wider 24mm (f/2.8)view than the 35mm lens I have used for this project. I got this really great little 35mm film camera as an impulse purchase and as you know, these types of buys are many times the best ones you ever do. A Canon AE1-p and all these images below are from a batch of 7 year outdated Fuji Presto NeoPan film that has been sitting idle since the day I started shooting more Digital and completely forgot that I had these stock. I will continue to shoot with this little-big "Manual Snap" camera at random places and situations, no real direction in mind, just let the images occur and hopefully learn and understand more as time is counting down from here on.

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For Whom The Bell Tolls

The 35mm camera lens has a field of view close to the human eye. The way we see life in front of us. Black and White photography is and will always make a strong image, timeless as the simplicity of various grey tones between black and white often show us the true image underneath , the reality of our surrounding.

The Project

December 11, 2012. This project set off with no destination in mind but to pay respect to my photographic heroes, a small dot in the never ending spectrum of what 21st century photography has become, but nevertheless my oblivious little mark. I needed a thin red line to base this idea on and chose to start out with what has become for me a trusted and very much used way of photography, the most common in the past and still the everyday master of reality, the 35mm (D)SLR camera fixed with a prime 35mm f.2 lens. Chinese photographer Lu Yuan Min set me on the right track with this idea, well, we will see how well it works for me in the long run but I feel confident that by setting certain restrictions on how to use your gear you will be able to adapt and take your own photography mindset to a higher level. Lets see how it goes and what will be the result of this project, the aim is not to reach a goal or a certain point, but just simply set out and capture life as I see it, in Black & White with a camera and lens I feel comfortable with and with no business pressure pushing from below. I know from my own experience that this is how the best work is produced. The masters I have studied and got inspiration from during the years have all had this as a foundation and have my deepest respect as one photographer to another. Photography without borders and regulations, freedom as one choose to. I have taken a deep interest over the years in studying masters like Arnold Newman, Philip Jones Griffiths, Elliot Erwitt, Anton Corbijn, Annie Leibovitz, Henry Cartier Bresson, James Nachtwey, Ansel Adams, Steve McCurry, Lu TuanMin, Reza and of course Salgado. I love the dedication they all show to their craft and their subjects. I love to have the knowledge now after many trials and errors as a professional photographer to understand and see what they have done with their views and minds. I love the fact that there are people out there that has in the past seen and others still continuing to see what is in front of them as time slips into another frame, another situation. Lets see, it's with joy and fear I set out to share this with you all.

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